Walsh Healthcare Center

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents at least once a day.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A for that category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without complete deficiency data for this facility, it is challenging to grade the place in this category.

Turning to the next area, this facility also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a very impressive profile. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.